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Old 01-25-2012, 12:50 AM
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Originally Posted by LeftCoastErik View Post
I'll chime in here. I just got my 2012 X5 35d and I am very happy so far. The "rattle" you hear off idle is actually timing rattle and pretty common on most HPCR diesels. I own Left Coast Diesel, and we do everything from oil changes to competition builds on diesel pickups. My other truck is a 675rwhp 2004 Ram diesel and it does this pretty badly with the larger injectors and programming I have in it.. anyway, as timing is increased, especially at low rpm/high load condition (like off idle or tip-in at cruise) you will get some rattle as the rpms increase to match the timing in the map.
Hope this helps some.
How do the transmissions last? My brother sold a Ram after experiencing automatic transmission failures, it couldn't take stock torque levels. Went back and bought a manual version.
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